Author: honcho
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Baldwinsville, Canon 40d, CNY, Digital, Plants
Knee high by the Fourth of July
Or an example of the relative height of maize as compared to the lower extremities of able bodied human beings on the fourth day of the seventh month of the Gregorian calendar. The wife & I, trying to remember any semblance of normalcy, drove all around the area farms yesterday looking for knee high corn, […]
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A Eulogy for my Father
My father, Svend S. Hansen, passed away on June 23, 2010. He was 66 years old. Below is the text of the eulogy I delivered at his funeral. “Last night, I was trying to think of something to say today regarding my father. I found it much harder in practice than it was in concept. […]
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Chatter, Color Film, Diana F, Hawaii, Kodak Ektar 100, Lo-fi, O'ahu, Vintage Cameras
May flies & June bugs….
Hello Internet, It’s been awhile, hasn’t it? I know, I know, I’m a bad friend leaving you hanging like that. Not a word or a peep or even just a heads up. Suddenly, it’s June. I know May existed by the subtle carnage it left behind, but as to where it went, only future archaeologists […]
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B&W, Chatter, CNY, Expired film, Landscapes, Nature, New York, pinhole, Syracuse
Reminder – World Pinhole Day is April 25th
Just a friendly neighborhood reminder that this Sunday! Sunday!! Sunday!!! is World Pinhole Photography Day. In previous years, I’ve been well-intentioned, but still never quite actually participated. This year however, I’ve built a custom pinhole camera from an Altoids tin (would that make it a ‘mint-hole’ camera, a ‘pintoid,’ ‘curiously lensless’???) from scratch. There are […]
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Color Film, Diana F, Hawaii, Kodak Ektar 100, Lo-fi, O'ahu
Diana F – Surfer Lanikai
Lanikai Beach, on O’ahu’s windward coast, is a place that existed in my imagination well before I ever knew it actually existed. It has a beauty that makes any words used to describe it feel brutish & hackneyed in comparison: – Water that openly defies Crayola with an ever shifting palette of blues and greens […]
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Brownie Hawkeye Flash, Chatter, Expired film, flipped lens, Hawaii, Kodak Ektachrome, Landscapes, Lo-fi, Nature, O'ahu, Plants, Slide Film, Vintage Cameras
BHF – A couple more from Hawaii
As I twittered (tweeted, twooted, twinkled, twunctated or twhat-have-you) yesterday, I’ve finally finished scanning all the 120 rolls from my December trip to O’ahu; now I face the Herculean task of processing the rough scans into pretty pictures. At first glance, there are several frames that have caught my eye that I can’t wait to […]
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B&W, Baldwinsville, CNY, Holga, Ilford HP5 Plus, Landscapes, Lo-fi, Nature, New York
Holga Hike – Another Beaver Lake Shot
Another image from the Holga Hike / Beaver Lake shoot. The recent snow melt had created a temporary pond around two winter-barren bushes. There were all kinds of little birds frolicking amongst the branches, chirping, hopping and occasionally splashing away. Even though I stealthily approached the scene in my best Elmer Fudd-esque stalk, my fine […]
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B&W, Baldwinsville, Camera, Chatter, CNY, Holga, Ilford HP5 Plus, Landscapes, Lo-fi, Nature, New York, Plants, Trees
Holga Hike – Beaver Lake Nature Center
Alas & alack, it just wasn’t meant to be… I didn’t submit my Holga Hike image in time due to a mix of FedEx fumbling the delivery date of my fresh developer, family visiting for Easter and a misinterpretation of a vague deadline. C’est la vie. The good news is Randy from HolgaMods assures me […]
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Brownie Hawkeye Flash, Camera, Canon 40d, Chatter, Color Film, Digital, flipped lens, Hawaii, Kodak Ektar 100, Landscapes, Lo-fi, Nature, O'ahu, Vintage Cameras
Diamond Head
Diamond Head, the iconic Hawaiian volcano, is probably one of the most photographed mountains in the world and, as a good tourist on O’ahu, I tried my best to do my part. From sea to summit, Diamond Head rises 762 feet; fortunately, the hiking trail inside the crater already spots you two-hundred feet of elevation […]
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Brownie Hawkeye Flash, Color Film, Hawaii, Kodak Ektar 100, Lo-fi, O'ahu, Vintage Cameras
BHF – Aging Gracefully
Ah… this has to be one of my favorite shots from our last Hawaiian adventure. My wife and I waxed poetic about this older couple walking Waikiki beach hand-in-hand in front of us. We playfully envisioned them as though we were staring thirty-or-so years into our future: still in Hawaii, still madly in love, flaunting […]
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